Monday, October 5, 2009

the end

I love Gourmet magazine, grew up on it, and can't believe that it won't be made anymore. My mom has them dating back to around when I was born lining the shelves of her kitchen. She also has these great indexes that they published every once in awhile so you could find recipes more easily.They are amazing and inspiring.I'm heartbroken there will be no more.

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The NPR report I just heard suggested that Conde Naste should have dumped some of its newspapers instead! Gourmet, according to that report, had increased sales last year and I think almost 1 million subscribers.

ugh. The same was true of Domino- it increased subscribers the year it got the ax. Conde Nast isn't in the business of selling magazines. They are in the business of selling ad space. They don't care about their customers, just their advertisers. In Europe magazines and newspapers get something like 75% of their money from sales and subscriptions, here those numbers are reversed. Magazines and newspapers are doing fine in Europe, here they are dropping like flies and the ones that survive get ever increasingly bad. It's a failed business model, but the folks at the top make a lot of money so they won't change it.